I felt like catching up on Questionable Content, as I've only skimmed it irregularly since it started pandering wholesale to SJW idiocy last decade. Presumably now the author will switch things up and introduce some Christian conservative robots to pander to the new dominant faction. But never mind. One particular page from 2021, as the snowflake wagon was gleefully careening off the political cliff, stands out as emblematic of wokey justice. One character calls against another getting a (very) temporary tattoo because it might be "culturally appropriative" of another demographic. Which happens to be robots.
Now, it might be worth mentioning the setting's robots have been around for less than one generation, and the culture being appropriated consists of one teenage girl scrawling random marker doodles on robots' chassis in the back of a repair shop. Which she started doing a couple weeks prior.
DO NOT APPROPRIATE THEIR NOBLE HERITAGE YOU FILTHY WHITE OPPRESSOR SHITLORD!!!1
I've said it before, but that sort of rhetoric has provided so much hilarity by tripping over itself. Weirdly, our heroine even acknowledges the lack of meaning, which makes one wonder what exactly the first two panels were about, aside from an opportunity to gratuitously browbeat one of her friends. But like other events from that time, like other artistic output from that time like Nimona, it tips the hand of would-be revolutionaries. It's never been about standing up for long-suffering underdogs, but (literally, in this imaginary case) fabricating any political lobby, no matter how flimsy, by which to bludgeon anyone you feel like labeling an enemy of the people.
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